The Sun. — London, England, 1864-07-26 00:00:00

Mcli. THE , CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, (From the Times Correspondent.) NEW YORK, July 12. T be " ra id" of the Confederates into Maryland— at arhich. all New York laughed last week—if it ever condescended to bestow a thought upon the matter, has grown into a formidable invasion. Even yet there are a few optimists or incredulous persons who think that the South is bankrupt, beggared, dispirit ed, famished, and demoralised ; who insist that Lfee has made a mistake in sending his horse men into the rich cornfields of Maryland ; that they will infallibly be cut off with their booty ; and that Grant will take advantage of their absence to cape ture both Petersburg and Richmond. But the bulk of the public has awakened, though somewhat tardily, to the conviction that Washington is in im minent danger ; that Washington and not Baltimore is the destination of the Confederate General, and that it 'Rill require the presence of the whole Army of the. Potomac to prevent its capture. The invad ing teests, of which no one knows the numbers, thoug'a they are variously estimated at from 40,000 to 80,00 e) men, carry everything before them. The affrighted farmers leave their fields and their cattle and betake themselves to the great cities for safety. The great cities are in as much terror as the rural districts. Washington and even Philadelphia are Bending their valuables to New York, and everybody who up to Saturday last could get away from Mary. land and the more e xposed districts and c i t i es of Pennsylvania hurried off as fast as possible, To-day they hr eve no longer a chance. The Confederates are within four miles of Baltimore and six of Wash ington. They have defeated the army of General Wallace, w ho thought to with s t an d their advance on the Monocacy, and driven him into Baltimore. They h a ve burnt down th e h ouse of Mr. Brad ford, the " loyal" or anti-Southern Governor of y land, and that of Mr Blair, the chief friend an d, adviser of Mr. Lincoln. They have cap tured the private despatches of Secretary Stan. ton, General Grant, and others. They have cat the telegraphic wires connecting with this city, They have broken up the railroads, destroyed the bridges, and prevented all communication with the N orth except by the byroads and the sea. Conse qn entiy, a few chance pedestrians or horsemen who may be willing to run the risks of capture in the at tempt and passengers by the coast steamers are th a only persons on whom the Northern public can at present rely for information from Maryland and the Federal capital, It is remarkable under such circumstances that no spark of patriotic ardour can be fanned into a flame in the hearts of the border and Northern people. As regards Maryland, there is, per 11aps, no room for wonder, for Maryland is Southern La feeling, in prejudice, in interest, in affection, and hedls the invaders as an army of deliverers. But Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York are dull, listless, and apathetic. The President calls for militiamen to defend the national capital, but the rsiti tia either plumply refuse, interpose vexatious delays, or haggle for terms. The Federal Govern ment is like a man drowning in a river, but though thor a are scores of people on the bank, all able to swim, not one volunteers to save him, though seve ra 1 talk to the half-suffocated wretch, and endea vc to extort a promise of some advantage to to emeelves to repay them for the exertion, and to indemnify them for the wetting of their clothes. Governor Curtis, of Pennsylvania, is both alarmed and indignant, and utterly at a loss to account for such lukewarmness,—he will not call it cowardice on the rut of his people. In a proclamation dated the day before yesterday, and. addressed to the Trla yor of Philadelphia and the people of Pennsyle varda., he tells them candidly that they are not refiponding freely to his and the President's demands; urges them to come forward " like :nen," and "do their duty ;" accuses them of stupidity in not understanding the gravity of the circumstances, and "prays to God to enlighten " them, that the honour of their commonwealth may be preserved." But the people make no sign. The poor attend to their daily work as if nothing were amiss, and the rich send away their jewels, their plate, and *heir greenbacks to safer cities than their own, some even so far to the n o rth as B os t on , an d some still further to Toronto and Montreal, out of Federal jurisdiction altogether. They seem to think that Mr. Lincoln has raised and possesses soldiers enough to defend this country, and reso lutely refuse to do soy lighting. The people of New York are scarcely a whit more zealous. The Gover nor of the state—who is prosecuting before the recognised legel tribunals the Federal military authorities in this city, who have contravened and set at defiance the laws and constitution, which he, on assuming office, took a solemn oath to maintain —does not think it advisable to send to Washington the militia, on whom ho may have to depend, should the Federal Government force a collision between the civil and military power ; and while he orders by proclamation that the full complement of militia shall be rai.ieti in the rural districts of his great State as well as in the cities of New York and Brooklyn, which have hitherto borne the brunt of militia service both at home and in Virginia, he takes care to make it known to all whom it may con cern that he requires the men " in every county to be in a condition to enforce the laws of the State, support the decisions of the judiciary, to maintain peace and order, and put down resistance to lawful authority." The Mayor of New York, Mr Gunther, in a letter to Major. General Sandford, commanding the New York militia, breaks similar ground, and endeavours to persuade that officer that the true place for .the militia is in New York and not in Washington. In this singular document he states " that in these times of general and local peril enlightened self-interest is emphatically the synonym of patriotism." Taking this curious aphorism as the basis of his argument, he further more states his " grave apprehensions" that the withdrawal of any considerable number of militia men from the city at this moment, when the depre ciation of the currency is bearing heavily upon the masses of the people, " might tempt the lawless and eviledisposed to avail themselves of what might seem to them a favourable opportunity for arson and plunder," and for that reason " earnestly pro tests against any material reduction" of the loeal force. It would almost seem as if the Mayor would as little regret a popular outbreak, if not tco severe, as the orator who advised a mob not to nail a man's ears to the pump would have regretted their con tempt of his entreaty. The Mayor is well belaboured by the Republic, and gently reasoned with by the Democratic journals, for having drawn so alarming a picture of the state of the city, which, unless Mr Lincoln be too much occupied with his own sa f e ty at Washington to attend to it, may, perhaps, be made the pretext of declaring martial law in this city. It is difficult, in view of public utterances so s i gn ifi can t as these, and of the indifference, not to say the contempt with which Mr Lincoln's ap peals for assistance are everywhere received, to avoid believing that at last the people are losing heart in the war, and that if Mr Lincoln cannot rznel invasion and conquer the South by the abun dant means already placed at his disposal they are coning to the conclusion, that peace cannot be made too soon. There is no longer any enthusiasm for the war, "less it be in the countinghouses of those who are makin g money by it. Even the churches have lost faith, and Dr Cheever sees nothing but ruin in the war, if Mr Lincoln is to be left to con duct it. The foreign element, b o th o f th e I r i s h and t p enters so l arge l y i nto the Conl osition of s oc i e ty in New -York, notoriously oP he German s , w hi ch vosed to any furthcr hostilities. Peopl e w h o a y ear z spoke freely o f th e subjugation of the South l ia vo"so changed to declare their opini ons as que p re ab d, H e ly, not only that th e S out h cannot be cot-. bu that the North ought not to strive any longer accomplish a purpose so fatal to its own liberty. V•r-re the Americans other than they are, were, it possible to apprecirzte their m ot i ves, and to trace the ten d ency o f t h e i r actions, es if they • 'amen, Frenchmen, or ether Europeans, n as if the hour of triumph of the peace party had come; that the public were pre paled to listen If any ono had the courage to speak, and that it only required a man of mark to take the lead to secure such an expression of the public will af. would spe e dily ro volntioniso the policy of the North end put a n e nd to a war so deplorable in its and which It WOU;ki conduct, sl unsatiatuctory has become, what Mr. Lincoln said in 1861 that it would become, if the Southern people were wholly in earnest—not a mere blunder on the part of the North, but a positive crime. But the Americans are not to be comprehended. They do not under stand themselves, and do not admit that any one else can ; so it may happen that all these indica tions are uncertain, and that the accident of a day may again render the North as warlike as it was three years ago before it had tasted the bitterness or paid any portion of the penalty of strife. However this may be, the present symptoms are, if there be not speedily some sort of compromise with the South, some little return towards reason after the furious paroxysm of madness which has possessed the governing party for the last three years, that the old question of State rights, the discussion of which in the matter of slavery pro. yoked the war, will break out in another form and lead to a conflict of powers- , serious enough of be entitled to the name of a new rebellion. Governor Seymour, as will have been noticed in his proclama tion for calling out the militia, adheres to the prin ciple of the sovereignty of the State as equal within its own sphere to that of the sovereignty of the Union, and foreshadows the day when it may be ne cessary to vindicate it by force of arms. The great case which is to test whether the courts of law and the people are of the opinion of the Governor, that of the State and people of New York against Gene. ral Dix and his military subordinates, came on for argument before Judge Russell on Saturday. It was urged on behalf of General Dix that having acted under the express orders of the President in arresting the editors of the World and Journal of Commerce, and in suspending the publication of those journals, he ought to be discharged from custody. inasmuch as the President is not only ex officio Commander-in-Chief of the Federal army. but that he had been specially empowered by Act of Con • gresa to take such measures for the public 'safety in time of war as he should deem expedient. It was contended, on the other hand, on behalf of the State of New York, that the Act of Congress in question is null an d void, as being contrary to the Federal con stitution—that it conferred and could confer no such special authority as that alleged; that the State of New York is in profound peace and tranquillity, and therefore exempt from the operation of martial law ; that the constitution of the State especially pro vided against the imprisonment of any citizen with out legal process; and against any restriction of the liberty of the press; and furthermore, that if it be. comes the duty of the President in the interest of the public safety to abrogate temporarily the ordi nary jurisdiction of the Courts, it is no less his duty to proclaim the fact before ; that be had not done so in this instance, and that for all these reasons the de fendants were guilty of the charge laid against them and liable to the punishment in that case pro vided. The judge, fally impressed with the vast importance of the issue, tcok time for consideration and adjourned the further hearing till the Ist of August, allowing General Dix and his co-defendants to be at liberty in the meanwhile on parole. The case is full of peril if Mr Lincoln be as obstinate as his letter to General Dix would imply; and may lead to complications unpleasant at any time, but especially dangerous at an hour like this, when the near approach of the Presidential election is letting loose a flood of passions, in addition to these pro duced by the war, and calling into controversy every one of the principles by which the American Rev°. 'mien was justified, and on which the Union itself was founded. Mr Fessenden arrived in New York on Sunday to coneult with the leading bankers and men of busieess on the aspects of the money market, the financial condition of the Government, and the means to be adopted to bring down the premium on gold and maintain the credit of the country. He yesterday met them by appointment, and listened attentively for several hours to such advice and hints as they had to give him, and such ex positions of the state of affairs as they chose to make ; but said not a word in reply which could afford the acutest among them the least clue to his own opinions and intentions. He had another long interview with the same gentle men to-day, and made an equally good listener as he did the day before. Having heard all they had to say he made a speech to them of an hour's dura tion, avowing his disinclination to announce any definite line of financial policy at a time of such public peril as this, and asking for a loan of fifty millions of dollars, to be repaid by the lst of September. It was understood from his speech that he will not imitate the example of Mr Chase in favouring the erection of new national banks, and in endeavouring to concentrate in their hands all the financial affairs of the country to the detriment of the State banks, N 5 hich at the outbreak of the war vied with each other in sustaining the credit of the Government. It was also understood that in addi tion to the loan of fifty millions, which if he procure it, will only pay the expenses of the war for about a fortnight, he will come upon the market for a loan of two or three hundred millions on the best available terms, sled that if this second loan succeed according to his wishes he will print offno more greenbacks-- at least for the present. The Republican journals favour the popular loan, and will call upon the Go vernment to offer it to the people in small sums, so as to enlist the greatest possible numbers of the working classes, the farmers, the shopkeepers, and the poorer order of provincial people in the sta• bility of the Government. The Tribune sees salva tion in this course alone and argues that if the people do not adequately support the Secretary in this emergency " the war must stop, and the Go vernment go down." It was supposed that the in vasion of Maryland and the danger of the Federal capital would have sent up gold to a premium of 200 per cent, to-day, but it has not reached a higher point than 176, being arrested in its upward ten- Oncy, it is though; by a rumour which is not likely to be well founded, that General Grant had captured Petersburg. There are, however, so many rumours afloat—some of them absurd, some contradictory, and some so utterly impossible to be true, that the one helps to neutralise the other, and to keep specu lation somewhat less rampant than it might be— if no more and no less than the truth were stated, however unpleasant the truth might happen to be. JULY 13. As anticipated, the rumour of the capture of Petersburg turns out to be false. Nothing is known positively this morning of the events that have hap pened to the north of the defences of Washington since Monday evening, when a battle was still raging. It is not known who commands at Washington on the part of the Federals, though it is supposed to be Gen. Augur, while it is surmised rather than known that Gen. Early, and not Lee, commands the Con federates. Telegraphic communication with Wash ington continues suspended, and the only news that reaches this city comes from Philadelphia, tainted more or less by its Federal or Confederate parentage. To give a tithe of the rumours in circulation would but perplex and confuse the European reader, and I therefore refrain from repeating them. Grant, it is asserted, will not abandon the attempt upon Rich mond via Petersburg ; and the loyal people are told to expect a movement in that direction which will fully make amends for all that the Confe derates may do, or attempt to do, in Maryland and the district of Columbia. FATAL AFFRAY BETWEEN SOLDIERS.—At the Aldershot petty sessions yesterday, before Capt. Newcome and a full bench of magistrates, George Barlow, private of the 75th Regiment, was charged with killing and slaying Thomas Hutchins, a private of the same regiment, on the previous f3aturday evening. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased had been drinking with the prisoner and some other soldier at the Royal Duke public-house, near the north camp, when some words ensued between them, and the prisoner struck the deceased with his fist behind the ear, which caused him to fall over some rails, and he did not again speak or breathe. The prisoner, when taken into custody, admitted the charge.: He was committed for trial. [ilaivnansEmENT J—nolloway's Ointment and Pill s.— T he disheart e n e d by ill health need not be inconsolable, till they have honestly given a fair trial to theao trusty medicaments. One grand fact to be noted is, that they are impotent to do mischief in any ease because both Ointment and Pills are composed of the finest balsams, which purify, regulate, and strengthen the animal economy. Every one may confid en tl y rec ommend these remedies to their friends afiticted by b a d health; they will free them from disease, and confer o n them thegreatest g ood man can desire. Both extern a l and internal maladies have succumbed to the persevering: use of Rollo-amYe exc ruciating 's Oi ntment and Pills, when the duration of some, and th others, ha ve defied ordin ary measures, excating pains of THE MAIN DRAINAGE WORKS, Yesterday what may be termed the annual visit of in spection to mark the yearly progress in the execution of this stupendous undertaking was made by the chairman and members of the Board of Works, a number of members of the House of Commons, the Sheriffs, many of the Alder men and chief officials of the City, with some of our leading engineers interested in noting the gradual completion of one of the greatest, and certainly one of the most important, engineering works of modern times. Mr Bazalgette, the engineer to the Board, the gentleman to whose scientific skill all the plans both for our new main drainage and our Thames Embankment are due, was, to the regret of all, un fortunately prevented by official duties before a Lords' com mittee from being present on this occasion. The party numbered between 500 and 600 strong, and were conveyed by two steamboats, which started from Hungerford early in the morning, calling at the various piers down to Wool wich for those whose time or business made it more conve nient to embark later and lower down the river. The visit was entirely confined to the northern and southern main outfall sewers, with their reservoirs, for we are glad to say the main drainage intercepting sewers are now nearly com pleted, and as they extend over the whole of the metrepoli tain area, and are 82 miles in length, any other way of in specting the works was out of the question. The whole system of the new intercepting plan of main drainage may be explained in a very few words. Before the Board of Works arose our efforts in the way of drainage were confined to the extremely simple expedient of running all drains into the Thames; in fact, of making the river our great wain sewer, and how admirably our efforts suc ceeded the smell of the Thames in hot weather soon showed. Bad, however, as this system of drainage was, there was one thing even worse, which was the method of effecting it. The first drains and sewers made were in the old districts of the metropolis—that is, those districts which lay more or less close to the river on each side, and therefore the lowest in point of ele vation of any in the city. It was hard to drain these parts at all, and it had to be done by taking the sewers so very much lower that it was only at dead low water they could empty themselves. As London grew, every year added enormously to the extent and danger of the evil till scarcely any sewers could empty but at dead low tide, when the water in the river was at its minimum, and when the returning flood swept all the naueous " flotsam and jet sam" back into the heart of the metropolis and kept it churning backwards and forwards for another six hours in the open air. What effect this at last produced we all know, though what no knows is why it did not bring a pes tilence long ago. It is enough, however, to say that the evil was so severely felt, and the danger so pressing, that the " intercepting" scheme of main drainage was at last adopted, is now, we are glad to say, nearly half executed, and will before this time twelvemonth be entirely com • pleted, with the exception of the small length to be laid in the Thames Embankment. The intercepting plan, as its name implies, consisting in cutting three great main drains on both sides of the river, and which, instead of running due north and south Eke the present system, run from west to east. These great main lines intercept and cut off all the existing lines of drains from the river, carrying their con tents away down to below Barking-creek and Erith Marshes, where they are poured into gigantic reservoirs and afterwards, when deodorised, turned into the river at high tide, and swept away by the ebb almost to sea. Thus, the sewage is not only turned out free of smell, but turned out into a body of water nearly 30 times as great as that into which it used to be poured, and, instead or sickening the air at our very doors, becomes lost in the volume of water which rolls down between the marshes on each side of the river to far below Gravesend. On the north side of the Thames, the intercepting sewers are divided, as we have said, into three distinct lines, two of which, called respectively the high and middle level sewers, unite at and pass over the river Lea; and the third, the low level, after passing through the Thames Embankment, will eventually join them at the proposed pumping station at Abbey Mills. Three parallel sewers, called the northern outfalirsewer, each 9 feet by 9 feet, are constructed as one work in a concrete embankment, and are carried by aquet:ucts over rivers, roads, and rail ways, to the Barking reservoir. On the south side of the Thames there are three lines of intercepting sewers, which are also known as the high level, the middle level, and the low level, and these converge to one point at Deptford pumping station, where the sewage from the low level is lifted into the upper level sewers, and their united stream flows thence deep under Greenwich and Woolwich, through one outfall sewer, 11 feet in diameter, to the Crossness reservoir and pumping station in Erith Marshes. Three-fourths of London north of the Thames are, however, elevated so far above the river that the sewage can be conveyed by its own gravitation to the level of high water at Barking, and this is why the sewers are carried in an embankment at such a height above the level of the marshes, and no pumping station is needed at the outfall. But on the south side the levels aro so low that this cannot be done, and therefore the outfall sewer is under ground, and a pumping station is placed at its outlet to raise the sewage into the reservoir. The high, middle level, and outfall sewers on both sides of the Thames are now, with the exception of a few very minor connections and works, completed. The low level sewer on the south side will be finished this year, but the short piece of the northern low level sewer cannot be com pleted until the Thames embankment is finished. About one-third of the metropolitan sewage is nowintercepted and discharged at the outfalls, and there can be little doubt that but for this the river would have been much more offensive this dry season than it has yet been. The areas drained by the three levels on the north side are as follows : Sire Miles. The Northern High Level takes the drainage ot Hackney, Hernerton, Stoke Newington, Stain. ford-hill, Hornsey, Holloway, Kentish-town, Hampstead, Highgate, and other localities, the total area of which is *.• • • 94 The Middle Level takes the d ra i nage o f Bow, Mile-end, Bethnal-green, Shoreditch, Kings land, Islington, part of the City, Clerkenwell, Holborn, Oxford-street, and from Bayswater to Kensal-green, and other localities, the total area of which is The Low Level takes the drainage of Poplar, Lime house, Shadwell, Radcliffe, part of the city of London, Westminster, Pimlico, Chelsea, Bremp ton, Fulham, Hammersmith, and adjoining lo calities, the tonal area bciug Total 5O! The northern outfall reservoir is situated at the point where Barking -creek falls into the Thames, a little east of Woolwich, and 11¢ miles below London-bridge. This im mense work was entirely constructed by Mr Geo. Furness, under the superintendence of Mr Edmund Cooper, the resi dent engineer. The contract price for this great under ground hall of waters was £164,000. It covers an area of about 10 acres, and is capable of containing 6,243,000 cubic feet, or 39,000,000 gallons. Its depth is about 17 feet, and it is divided into four compartments. Three of these compart ments have already been filled with sewage, hut the fourth was yesterday lighted up for inspection. This was the point which the visitors inspected first, for none were inclined to linger on the broad plateau of earth which covers the three other reservoirs now in use, and from the ventilating shafts leading into which the most nauseous stench came pouring out in such abundance as to make the visi tors almost fancy they were back on the metro politan part of the Thames in summer. They were, therefore, glad enough to descend into the reservoir which had not been used, and which was open for inspection and lighted up. Itreally presented a wonderful sight. In height and in the general position of its brick columns and the spring of its arches it was not unlike the crypt beneath Guildhall, but the daylight was excluded, and its vast area was only indicated by little rows of coloured lamps, which marked the outline of the columns and curve of the arches, and which, twinkling away in the long, dark, silent distance till they became minute points of fire and nothing more, gave to the whole dim interior an aspect which was at once novel and solemn in the highest degree. Here and there were little blue points, where the shafts which communicated with the upper air let in a ghastly mockery of daylight, but beyond these, which seemed few and far between, amid the gloom there was nothing but the coloured lamps and endless vistas of arches, from amid which voices and echoes of feet come in a forlorn murmur. The Hall of Eblis seemed for once realised in this prosaic age, or, as the footsteps of the visitors strayed far and wide into the silence, called up before the imagination the pic ture of such a trans-Lethean Vauxhall as Pluto might reign over. A long time was spent in inspecting this wonderful interior, the gloomy beauty of which it is difficult to de scribe. In a few weeks it will be used as a reservoir, and can never again be seen with comfort and never again be entered at all. When the visitors had at last found their way to the little nebulas of fire which the stars and devices in lamps at the end of the reservoir proved to be, Mr Cooper got on a platform and answered questions as to the nature and difficulty of the work, how the foundations often had to be carried as low as 2811, how the penstocks or sluicegates would let the sewage in at one end and out into the river at the other. He explained how culverts had been made leading far out from the reservoir, almost into the bed of the river, which could be opened at any time when the deposit from the sewage became more than six or eight inches deep, the reservoir filled and then emptied so as to flush tho de posited filth away down the river. The opinions of the most eminent chemists set little or no value on the much diluted sewers which finds its way into these reservoirs as manure. But we should be inclined to think there could be no second opinion as to the value of the soft black deposit which set'les from the sewage, and for which arrangements have been made to flash it into the Thames. From the beautifully paved floor of this reservoir it could be collected with ease by horse sweeping machines, and its value for agricultural purposes might, one, would think, at least be worth a trial. Before the deep excavations for this reservoir were made the marches were protected from inundation by the formation in the river of a coffer-dam, a portion of which still remains to protect the river bank. There are 16 openings in the side of the outfall sewers through which the sewage flows into the reservoirs, as regulated by the penstocks ; and underneath them are 16 openings, also re gulated by penstocks for the outflow of the sewage into the rive: at the time prescribed. The discharge culverts into the river are visible only at the time of low water—they .tre nine in number, and in front of them is a stone-paved THE SUN, LONDON, TGESDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1864. apron, over which the sewage glides, without leaving any deposit, into the river. From the inspection of this stupendous work, which comes close in its magnitude and far surpasses in useful ness the great Egyptian rock-hewn temples of antiquity, the visitors proceeded to Crossness-point, where the southern pumping station and the southern reservoir are being com pleted. The first place examined was the pumping house, a spacious and handsome building—the chimney of which, nearly 200 feet high, is travestied into a kind of Campanile tower by the introduction of ornamental openings and wind runs in the sides of the square from base, to summit. Here are the boiler-houses and engines, which are all of the most colossal proportions. The machinery provided is of 500 nominal horse power, consisting of four double acting con densing engines, working two single acting ram-pumps or sets of plungers. The beams are 40ft long, the fly-wheels 27ft diameter and 50 tons weight each ; the cylinder is 48in. diameter and 9ft. stroke; and the plungers (eight to each engine) are 4min. 6sec. diameter; half of them with 4min. lOsec. stroke, and the remainder with 2min. 3sec. stroke, The pump-cases aro 12ft. diameter; the two delivery • troughs or outlets from the pumps are each 32ft. long, lljft. wide, and 10ft. high. The 12 boilers are each 61t. diameter and 30ft. long. The engine-house is about 154 ft. long, and about 53ft. wide; the boiler house about 112 ft. by 64ft. The chimney-shaft, when completed, will be about 200 ft. high; the coal sheds extend along one side of the reservoir for a length of about 530 ft„ and are about 48ft. wide. The entire area of the works, including the reclaimed ground and adjoining land, is about 36 acres. A telegraphic wire is fixed along the centre of the arch of the outfall sewer between Deptford and Crossness, so that in case of accident to the machinery or other works at either end the fact may be instantly made known and assistance procured. After the engine -house, the southern reservoir, close at hand, was visited. It was not lighted, except by a dim daylight just enough to enable a good idea to be gained of its solidity and great extent, It has an area of about six and a half acres, is 17 feet deep, and is capable of holding 4,340,000 cubic feet, or 27,000,000 gallons, in its four com partments, This great work, with all its surrounding buildings, is being constructed by Mr Webster, at a con tract price of £300,000. The engines for pumping are separately contracted for by Messrs Watt and Co., and are to cost £44,000. The drainage from the low-lying districts of Rotherhithe , Bermondsey, Newington, Vauxhall, Wandsworth, Putney, and other places will be previously pumped at the station at Deptford Creek from the low-level sewer up to the high level sewers, which carry off the drainage of Nunhead, Dulwich, Norwood, Brixton, and Clapham. From Dept ford the united stream will flow through the outfall sewer to Crossness Pumping Station, where it will be lifted into the reservoir. The maximum quantity of sewage to be pumped is estimated at 8,000 cubic feet per minute, and the lift as varying from 10 to 20 feet. Triple culverts con vey the sewage to and from the pumps, and are built over each other to avoid the expense of separate foundation. The course of the sewage is from the outfall sewer along the low level culverts to the pumps ; thence to the reservoir along the high level culverts; and thence either to the low water outlets, or the deep outlet, along the middle level culverts, into the river, In addition to the sewage which will accumulate in the reservoir between the periods of dis charge, the reservoir will provide for storing rain to an ex tent which probably will not be exceeded more than a few days in the year, when the overflow may take place at a less fa vourable time of tide, In order to deliver the sewage into the river under as favourable conditions as possible, the deep outlet is constructed with a series of 12 iron pipes, 52 inches in diameter, extending for a considerable distance under the fore shore. About 120 penstocks, or sluices, are fixed in various places, nearly NO of the number being in the reservoir. For about 1,200 feet the river will be em banked by a retaining wall of brickwork, built on caisson foundations and capped with granite ; the wall will be backed up with concrete, and the reclaimed ground filled in and levelled. The contracts, both for the buildings and the engines, are in a forward state, and it is hoped will be completed by the end of the present year. Cottages will be erected for a superintendent and a staff of workmen, to resido at the works, so that constant supervision and attend ance may be given. After all the works had been gone over thoroughly the visitors partook of a plain luncheon, at which the healths of Mr Thwaites, Mr Bazalgette, and other gentlemen to whom the execution of this great national work is mainly due, were drunk with great enthusiasm. An early return to town was then made. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.--NOTTINGHAM, July 25, CROWN COURT. (Before Mr Justice Blackburn.) TIIE FISKERTON MURDER. Richard Parker, aged 29, was charged with th 3 wilful murder of his mother, Elizabeth Parka., at Fiskerton, on tho 10th May last. Prisoner was also che,rged with shooting his father with intent to murder him. Flann-Ah Burdon said she was servant in the pri soner's parents' family. Prisoner was a butcher. On the 27th of March he asked his mother if he could go to Sheffield by an excursion train. She said he could if be liked, and he went away on Monday morning. Witness next saw him on Tuesday night whilst getting her tea along with Mrs. Parker. Prisoner came into the room, and his mother asked him to sit down, but he would not. His father came in at the time, and prisoner turned round and began to swear at him. Witness went out of the room to the back kitchen, and her mas ter stayed near the door. Prisoner came into the kitchen directly afterwards, and witness fetched Mrs. Haines, a neighbour. Witness remained in the street a short time, and heard two reports of a gun. Mary Haines said that she remembered the ser vant Coming to he r h o use. She saw the is father and mo th er . Mrs Parker girl, prisoner and n r d d o his had hold of the prisoner, and said he should not fight his father. They were in the garden near the house. Witness persuaded Mr. Parker to go away, and he went to the stable door. Prisoner went into the house and returned with a gun. Mrs. Parker said, " Oh dear, he's got a gun, and he's going to shoot." She then came towards witness. Prisoner put the gun to his shoulder and pointed it to where witness was. Witness, however, got out of the way before the gun was discharged. In a few seconds the other barrel went off, and on wit ness turning round she sa w M rs . Parker lying on her left side. She never stirred or spoke. The top of her head was scalped, and wit ness thought she was dead. Prisoner passed his mother and witness in the yard and went to wards the Trent very rapidly. Witness said, " Oh, Tom, you've shot your mother dead." H e muttered something, and went away. The father soon after wards came up bleeding. Mrs Parker wa s then taken into the house and a surgeon sent for. Arai Rhodes was near Pa r k er 's house at the time and heard prisoner's father say to him, " You are a rogue, a villain, and a thief to me—get out of my house." Sho then 8 5w the prisoner and the pia sonar's father and blather come out of t he ho use ; w the mother as tryi ng g to separate the father from the son, the two latter squa ring fists. Mrs Parker said to the prisoner, " You shall not fight your father." When they had done fighting they went from the garden to the yard, and shortly afterwards witness heard two reports of a gun, and immediately a fter heard prison er say ,'6 I have shot my mother, a nd I shall die lik e a pig on the scaffold." Samuel Foster h ear d two shots fired through Parker's window. The last shot struck the stable wall, and as the father was going to the stable he was struck on the head. Witness, along with the constable Barksby, captured the prisoner and took him to Southwell House of Correction. Thomas Coke assisted in carrying Mrs Parker into the house. The father said to the prisoner, "What have you done this for ?" The prisoner answered, "Yon should not aggravate me so." The gun lay on the ground, It used to be kept loaded. Witness found a quantity of powder and shot and gave it to the poli ce . Witness saw the prisoner the same night, and said, " You have shot your mother, and she, will be dead before you get to Southwell." Prisoner answered, "It was a mere accident, and I shall die on the scaffold," He was very tipsy, By Mr O'Brien—Some years ago the prisoner received an injury on the head from falling off a horse, and when ho had had drink he was not the same man. Elizabeth Birkett said that on the 29th March prisoner came into her house. He fastened the door and said, " ain't split." Witness said, A , Split what ? " and he answered, " I have shot my mother dead. Hide me. I shall be hanged." Witness told him she had no place to hide him in, and he went away. the prisoner, w h o said, Police Const a bl e B Ar k s b y prove d a pprehending I know that I did it ; it was pure accident. Is my mother dead ?'' Pri soner asked w i tness severa l t i me s whether they hi would hang —al, as if so be should die like a " pig. The shot used by the prisoner was partridge shot. Mr Cooke, surgeon, said he had no doubt that death bad resulted from the gun-shot wound. Mr Sergeant O'Brien made an able speech for the prisoner, after which the learned judge summed up. The jury retired, and in a few minutes returned a verdict of Wilful Murder, with a recommenda tion to mercy on account of the prisoner's being in liquor. The Judge—Prisoner, have you anything to say? Prisoner—Yes, my lord. lum not guilty of wil ful murder. I had no intention of murder; it was an accident. The Judge—l quite agree with the jury. I firmly believe that you fully intended to murder your father as well as your mother. The recommenda tion of the jury I will forward to the proper quarter. His lordship then passed sentence of death in the usual form, and the prisoner was removed. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—STAFFORD, July 25. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr Justice Shee.) THE MURDER OF A POLICEMAN. The four men who on Saturday were found Guilty of the manslaughter of the policeman Lyons at Willenhall, under circumstances already detailed, but who had been tried for wilful murder were sen tenced—Thomas Lockley, who threw the brick-end which gave the fatal blow, to eight years ; George Lockley, his brother, to six years; John Edwards, to six years ; and Joshua Stanley, who had been by the jury recommended to mercy, to five years' penal servitude. The fifth man, George Willetts, was acquitted, and he remains to be tried on the charge of stealing the policeman's truncheon. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—EXETEE, July 25. In consequence of the continued illness of Mr Justice Williams, Mr M. Smith, Q.C., tried pri soners in the Nisi Prins Court to-day. THE ACCIDENT AT PLYMOUTH SOUND. The grand jury to-day ignored the bill against Major-General Hutchinson, charged with the man slaughter of George McCoy, a waterman. The de fendant was subsequently arraigned, and pleaded not gaily. Mr. Lopes appeared for the prosccution, and Mr. Cox for the defendant. Mr. Lopes having briefly recapitulated the facts under which McCoy met his death, said having had an opportunity of seeing his lordship's directions to the grand jury, and the jury having thrown out the bill, he did not propose to proceed further on the coroner's inquisition. At the same time he might be allowed to express a hope that the cala mity which had resulted from firing at the Ply mouth breakwater, and that after communications from the towns of Plymouth and Devonport on the subject, would have the effect of causing the autho rities for the future to adopt measures to prevent the recurrence of a similar catastrophe. After a few remarks from his lordship a verdict of not guilty was taken, and the gallant major was discharged. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES.—It is the fashion at the end of every session for the people to complain that Parliament has done nothing but vindicate the whimsical etymology of the old constitutional writers, and has only " spoken its mind." Yet within a few weeks after the three taps of the Usher of the Black Rod have put an end to the deliberations of the Com mons there is certain to issue from the Queen's Prins ters' publishing office a bulky volume, which every one is legally supposed to get by heart. When we say that Parliament has done nothing this session, we mean that the storms and tempests of Parliamen tary debate have passed away without shivering any of the big trees or bringing down any of the great edifices. We have not been handed over to the supremacy of the mob, nor committed bound hand and foot to the tender mercies of competing or combining contractors. We have not been forced headlong into an European war, nor compelled to ruin ourselves by unnecessarily coming between the madmen who are tearing each other to pieces on the other side of the Atlantic. We have not even done in this one session everything that we might have wisely done, although we have certainly wisely re frained from doing many things that we have been unwisely urged to do. The fiercest contests have indeed sometimes produced the least result. But still there must be a residuum even from a burst soap bubble, and there must be a good deal left to analyse, examine, and to weigh when this session, which is now expiring, shall have no other memorial than its annual statute book. The comfort or discomfort, the every-day life of the individual atoms, of the body politic depend perhaps in a much greater degree upon the little social ordinances which pass almost unnoticed and undebated, and which are scarcely known as propositions until they are felt operating as laws, tt - laa they do upon the great contests of party. It will be our duty from time to time to draw public attention to many of these small changfs which have been wrought out by this Ses sion of Parliament, and which must gradually make their way into our daily habits. It was thought, and truly thought, so great an achievement of legis lation to enable a householder to send an organ grinder from his door that both in the Commons and in the Lords loud cheers, as for some unexpected victory, welcomed the final stage of Mr. Bass's Street Music Bill. In no other country in the world, perhaps, would a nuisance so pitifully vexatious have required to be abated at such great cost. The resistance to this measure was the intolerance of hale, coarse men, of strong sinews, towards the weak, sensitive persons of over-wrought nerves. It was not that the strong men were intentionally cruel, but they did not believe in a species of suffeiing they had never felt. This little bit of grudged legislation which enables a man to send away from his door a noise that makes him frantic is to thousands among us a greater boon than Universal Suffrage, and Vote by Ballot, and Annual Parliaments, and Wages to Members of Parliament, all rolled up in one bill would have been to the thr ee h ero i c ta il ors o f T ooley-street. It is almost ludicrous to picture to ourselves the altered state of mind in which hun dreds, and even thousands, of pereons in this city will open their front windows, now that they know the law has armed them with the power of handing over to a policeman those terrible tormenters who made life a burden to them. We hope they will not be disappointed, fo r it is just upon the cards that the police magistrates may even yet make the measure inoperative; and a much surer plan would have been to confiscate the organ, which never belongs to the " musician," and thus to have made the master cf the poor stroller the person interested in making him behave with consideration and civility. At the sacrifice of half a dozen organs this reform might have been effected without the aid of im prisonment, and without affording to any ono the sentimental regret that— " The tyrants of this iron time Have deemed his harmless art a crime," We, however, accept this new piece of law as we find it, and only use it as an example of the strong interest that may hang upon minute acts of legisla. tion which seem but as the dust and sweepings of the lawmaker's workshop. If people of sensitive nerves have reason to bless this Session of 1864, the people of acute moral sensibilities, who are fortu nately a much more numerous class, will also find something to satisfy them in the forthcoming statute book. There is no country in the world in which there is so much private refinement and so much public indecency as in England. The reason is that we scorn to touch immoralities of some descrip. tions in the only way in which they can be effec. tively dealt with—that is, in a spirit of compromise with a view to mitigate them by regulation. The Grand Master of the Templars would touch no heretic save with his sword, but he could not hack to pieces every Jew he saw, and we cannot by un compromising force bind human passions and crush human vices, If we will not recognise them, we cannot regulate them, and we are forced into the opposite extreme of letting them aione. There can be no question that the H aymar k et an d it s neighbourhood are a scandal to any Christian country. All night there is held there a great street orgie which is unexampled in the world. It is true that decent people need not go there, and it is not like the organ nuisance, which follows the physfcally sensitive man even into his innermost sanctum, and there torments him. To be grossly shocked by it, the morally sensitive man must sit up all night and go to a distance from his home especially to undergo the pain of being shocked. But still it is a scandal ; it is a breach of good order, it is not creditable to our institutions, and there is no occasion for such a scene. Sir George Grey has made a praiseworthy attempt this Session to mitigate this nightly Haymarket Carnival. A bill now stands for the Royal assent which provides that all refreshment rooms shall be cicsed between 1 o'clock in the morning and 4. As a general pro position this seems to us to be very reasonable. Vice itself ought not to complain of being sent home at 1 o'clock in the morning, and harmless pleasure is never found seeking refreshment in the streets of London at a later hour. As a simple police rule we cannot think that any could bo less objection able, and, with this in force, it may be doubted whether any other in addition to it is of much use, This interval of three hours will certainly starve out the Haymarket orgie. The difficulty, of course, is, in a city like this, to make any r ule which Shall cut C'ff /" e sapplie3 from debauch' ry out starving industry. We must not force a tired traveller to go to bed supperless in order to prevent Tom Mohawk from treating the room to " cham pagne all round "at 3 in the morning. Nor must we starve the hundreds of the hard-working men and women who come into town by break of des , from all surrounding parts to supply the various markets with the food for two millions of mouths. The cabman must have a refugefrom frost and snow. IC ever this metropolis comes to be governed upon the same principles, much of the heavy traffic which now wastes the business hours of the community will be performed soon after daybreak, and the men who have to be about for these purposes will re quire breakfast-houses. There must be exceptions to any rule. Sir G. Grey has, we think, met this difficulty with success. After exempting railway stations and excluding inmates of hotels, he gives a power to the Commissiouer or other chief officer of Police to grant occasional licences which will pro tect:the holder from the operation of the Act. It is evident that there must be some very elastic power and some very wide discretion vested somewhere ; and undoubtedly the police authorities are best able to exercise such a discretion, if they can be safely trusted with it. We cannot at any tour of the day or night throw a not over this great city, and be sure to catch nothing but profligates. There must be some power to distinguish, and that power is perhaps best vested in a well-watched police under the control of a responsible Home Secretary. Sir George Grey must, however, forgive us if we remind him that the best laws are of no use un less they are put in force. Sir George has shown his anxiety to render our metropolis more respec table at night; will he not exercise the powers the law has lately given him to render it more pass able in the day ? Fleet-street is still occupied through all the business hours by a continuous string of carts bearing earth to the Thames Em bankment, all of which might be either carted in these long days before 10 or after 4 o'clock, or de.. livered by water. Coal waggons in unbroken pro cession still block up Cheapside, as if its inhabitants required large fires in every room during the sultry weather, and empty cabs still "tout" for hire at a snail's pace. The City of London is still impassable by reason of impediments which have no necessity to excuse them—impediments which, if they are allowed to continue, will block up any streets, how ever wide, and render useless all efforts to provide new thoroughfares. All we ask is a little gentle energy, not the spasmodic energy which, repre sented by a rough policeman, savours some times of brutality, and which, by arousing sympathy with offenders, defeats the object, but the energy which provides a continu ous, well-sustained attention to the comfort of every one, and a prompt repression of ruffianism. Tacitus said of our German ancestors that with them good customs did the office of good laws. If the great historian could see our cabmen, and wag gonus, and carters, and the shopkeepers who insist upon keeping the empty vehicles before their doors, be would, we fear, think that we had deteriorated in that innate respect for each other's convenience which renders laws as to small matters worse than unnecessary. These folk not only require geod laws, but an active police to enforce them, and strong penalties certainly imposed for every act of boorish selfishness. POST.—It is to be hoped that we have now heard for the last time of the alleged tampering with the re ports of the inspectors of schools by the Committee of tne Council on Education. That the allegation was virtually groundless is now on all hands agreed; yet, notwithstanding, it gave rise to one of the most angry debates of the present session. It led to a vote which has now been formally rescinded, and caused the temporary loss to the country of the services of a man whom both friends and political opponents concur in admitting to have been most undeservedly censured. Mr Lowe is not, perhaps, remarkable for possessing that most invaluable gift of a statesman, the knack of reconciling those who differ with him to measures which he is suflis ciently powerful to carry into execution ; but that he is a man of consummate ability and of strict in tegrity no one has even pretended to doubt. It un fortunately happened, however, that a discussion arose in the House of Commons regarding the man ner in which the department over which he pre sides is conducted, in which the conclusions pointed at certainly appeared to impeach his character for veracity. A charge was made, and that charge he met with unequivocal denial. The charge was to all appearances proved, and a man even less sensi tive than Mr Lowe might have concluded that he was thereby constructively convicted of falsehood. It was in vain for his friends to assure him that the inference was not justified, and for his adversaries to disavow all intention of putting any imputation on his honour : he resolved on resigning his official position. He availed himself, however, of the oc casion en which he took this step to explain to a very full house the circumstances under which the apparent conflict arcse between his assertions and the evidence advanced by those who complained of the manner in which his department was conducted, and so clear and convincing was the statement which he then made, that, were it not inconsistent with Parliamentary usage, the resolution at which he had taken umbrage would have been at once re• sciuded. As this course could not be taken, and as at the same time it was manifestly inconvenient that a resolution shonld stand recorded on the journals of the house which had been passed under a misapprehension, Lord Palmerston moved that the entire matter in dispute should be referred to a select committee. Some discussion took place us to the manner in which the committee should be formed, but it was finally resolved that it should be composed of five impartial members, and not of 15 declered partisans. The report of that committee has been published, and, as was expected, it excul pates the late Vice-President of the Committee of Council from all blame. Last evening the Prime Minister moved that the original resolution should be rescinded, and that motion having been carried, the amour propre of Mr Lowe is now satisfied, and the sting tekeu from the attack so successfully di rected against him in the early part of the session. The discussion which supervened on Lord Palmer ston's motion did not touch the merits of the matter under consideration. No one pretended that the conclusions at which the committee had arrived were not just, and no one ventured to suggest that on the evidence submitted to the committee any other conclusions could have been arrived at. No one hinted that Mr Lowe was not a hardly treated man, and not a syllable of apology was uttered in defence of the singular manner in which the house had been brought to pass the resolution which has since been formally condemned. No one repeated the charge that the late Vice_President had muti lated the inspectors' reports, and none professed to see any inconsistency between his formal denial of that charge and the interlined reports which Lord Robert Cecil, on the occasion of the first debate, circulated in the house. The objection last night to the adoption of the Premier's motion rested on grounds far different. It was too late in the session, it was urged, to call on the house to rescind a reso lution passed in the month of April. The large majority of members had now left town, and those who remained being for the most part connected with the Government, the result of the division could not be doubtful, and would consequently be valueless. For these reasons, therefore, and not be cause the report of the committee was intrinsically objectionable, the Government were asked to post pone its confirmation until next session. The answere to objections such as these are equally simple and conclusive. If the House of Commons is prepared to concur with its committee in acquitting Mr Lowe, surely the sooner that the acquittal is formally recorded the better, and the paucity of members who took part in the discussion on the motion for entering it on the journals of the House cannot possibly affect the issue. But although it is certainly notorious that at this period of the session many members have already made their adieux to the Speaker, we do not think that they can fairly make what is a dereliction of duty on their part a ground for calling on the Government to postpone what is confessedly an act of justice. There has been no surprise. The matter has long been under consideration, and abundant notice was given by the Premier of his intention to give a practical effect to the report of the select committee. But not merely were the objections groundless, but they were ungenerous. Lord Robert Cecil's friends must know very well that if the House were as full es it was on the night when Mr. Disrach's vote of censure was negatived by a majority of eighteen, the motion rescinding the resolution of the 12th of April would equally be carried. But they affect to think that in a small House at this period of the year the vote could not be satisfactory to Mr. Lowe, and that the censorious would have an opportueily for suggesting that under other circumstances the result would be different. This is pure malice. They should riot forget that the original resolutiona was carried at dinner-time in a very thin House, and under circumstances which had best be forgotten. Lord Robert Cecil snatched a victory by means which it is hoped ho will net ernpioy again, and the vote of the House of Commons last night may be regarded, not merely 213 acquitting tho late Vice-President of the Com mittee of Council, but as discountenacing the sharp practice by which a vote of censure was obtained which was completely unmerited. TEE WESTERN RAILWAY OF FRANCE. — The Pays, in spe a ki ng of the Western R a ilway station in the Rue St. Lazare states that on Sundays 203 trains leave Paris, and the same number arrive, each having from 600 to 700 passengers, and sometimes more than 1,000. The other days are not much more quiet than Sunday, the departing trains amounting to nc, with the same number of arrivals, Extraordinary Shipwreck. The following letter is written by Mr Jacobs, United States Consul-General at Calcutta. Its statements would be incredible were they less authoritatively vouched for Calcutta, April 20, 1861. The following is the statement of Wm. Palmer, late second officer on the ill-fated Elvirof which left Calcutta Dec. 22, bound for Boston. Her crew consisted of Nathaniel Andrews, Salem, Massachusetts, CE' master; his brother, S. G. Andrews, mate; Win. Palmer,' G. D. Blake, James Jordan, second, third, and fourth mates; John Tenylon, A. M. Bowden, Peter Nelson, F. Bunger , G. Paterson, J. Anderson, T. Frasier, Thomas Brown, P' Johnson, John Wilson, Alex. Murphy, Jas. Williams, John. Lewis, seamen—and F, H. Hodges, Boston—James Sand ford, Boston—Campbell Weke, New York—Edward Lewis, Delaware—Robert Willart, New Orleans—Thomas Porter, New Jersey—William Riley, Portland—G. Chase, Ports mouth—Charles Scott, Wm. Jackson, East Boston- 4 °b l ? Buckley, Brooklyn—Wm. Law, Maine—John Desmond, New York Consul's men sent home to j o in the navy. Fair and prosperous winds attending, moved them across t he Equator in 24 days after losing sight of the landheads. Th e S.E. trades sprang up in 6 south, and all went pleasant l y till the afternoon of the 19th. At 3of the morning of th e 20th the spare maintopmast broke loose from its lashing!' and, rolling back and forth over the deck, stove in the cabin doors, the lazarette, the water. casks amidships, broke down the stanchions and bulw arks, and finally went overboard, pounding hcavilyagainstthe side. Everything within reach of the fatal stick was made a perfect wreck; torrents of water poured from the huge casks into the cabin and down upon the lower deck. The damage was done in a moment . The ship now listed suddenly to starboard, and would not right, owing to the shifting of the cargo or from the wat er already rushing into the hold through the opened beams. The hull was slowly sinking, but steadily, and the crew sprang overboard five minutes before she went down, leav ing the master and his brother alone, standing together. Together they sank, and were not again seen. Gaining th e floating spars, the poor fellows rested for a few momen ts / until the cabin roof was driven within reach, upon whi ch they clambered to the number of 11. The rest had disair peared. Here, tied to the spars, they lay down up, ea ° sails, and the seas washed over them. At 7 o'clo , ~k the wind died away, and tearing a shirt in two they re ist 3d , a signal of distress. Two pumpkins, sole relics of the stores, were seen floating nigh, but not within reach , an d they looked longingly upon them as they passed by. •A t noon the gale sprang up again, blowing furiously as b :fare' The waves swept tumultuously over the raft, carrying away two of their number. One, George Chase, swam back :, an d was assisted upon it, but soon turning black in the fac e from swallowing sea water, died. All through that • la.Y an d night the storm continued, moderating towards morning' The sky was overcast the second day, but the wind wen t down and the sea became more calm. The sun rose bright and clear in a cloudless sky the morning of the third dal' and his beams boat fiercely upon their unsheltered heads' Maddened with thirst, in their agony some of them drank the sea water and died. Tho fourth day dawned with a sun though not so lustrous and ardent as before. Another died' The survivors cut off his legs, and ate for the first time sin c ' e , leaving the ship—they drank th e ir ow n uri n e. Not a morsel had they eaten, not a drop of fresh water had they drunk for four days. The clouds gathered overhead on the fif th day, but the sun burnt them off and shone more scorchingly than ever. That evening one of their comrades slipp ed over the side, saying, lam going home, I can stay here ne longer—l want to see my mother—come with me, we guilt not be long away, and soon return.' They were too wea k to prevent it, and he swam away. Far as their dim el° could range did they wistfully watch him swimming 014 the sharks plashing their white fins by his side, till ho w as lost in the distance. The sixth day came and went, and another died. The seventh morning found them hopeless and despairing ; too weak to stand, spiritless and exhaust ed they lay feebly clinging to the spars, and another died. 1 3 n three were left now of the eleven—and through the long forenoon did the burning rays of that terrible sun fall hotly upon them. At the last moment relief' came. The Frenc h , bark Claire, Robert master, di scovere d th e r a ft, their sigu sl fortunately flying, and despatched a boat to their assistan ce. Tenderly were they lifted into it, and from thence trans' ferred to the ship."—American paper. COUNTRY M.A.RKETS. COLCHESTER—JULY 23, At this corn exchange to-day there was a small ahoy o f wheat, which sold at prices against the buy 6 r. Spring C oln dull at about former rates. Wheat, white 46s 52s Beans,Mazagan•• 33 s •Ts red 43s 49s middle & sruall.3 89 5s Barley Oats — s Peas, white ...... ° 35s 3 3 00 GLOUCESTER—JULY 23. There was a fair attendance of farmers at market to-dap with a much batter supply of English wheat, which s old at the prices of last week. Foreign wheat in moderato demand, with no alteration in value. Barley Gd Oats very firm. Peas advanced aLout is per qr. NORTIIAMPTON—JuLY.23. An average show of wheat to-day, and sellers obtained is per qr more money. Not much barley showing, 1 - 11 ,, with a moderate demand, last week's rates were r e aliseu• A fair business doing in beans at an advance of is per q r ' —White wheat, new, 40s to 41s; new red, 40s to 425, old, 38s to 40s per qr. Barley, new malting, 34s to 3(,5 grinding, 26s to 33s per qr. Oats, 19s to 30s per 24 stone. Beans, 353 to 38s. Pea,, 35s to 37s,per qr. CIIELMSFORD—jtiLY 22. We had a moderate .show of wheat on offer at our mar ket to-day, and the trade was steady at last week's 0007 tions; best samples is more money. Other articles abo ut the same as of late. Wheat, old white 30s 46s new 43s 47s old red 34s 37s new 3Gs 408 Barley 25s 33s Chevalier 26s 36s Grinding 20s 28s Malt..., Chevalier . 64s 68s Oats 20s 26s Peas, Partridge 36s 3° White 303 34s Boiling 3 BB 42$ Dun 31s 553 Ditto new —B ,7; s . Decals, Tick, old 34s '' -': now —s z 7, Harrow Ticks 34s "; new —s - 7 - Dlazagan ..... 283 5°3 KIRKCALDY GRAIN—JrLY 23. 0 We had good supplies of wheat at market, but sr? 4 of oats and barley. Prices were about the same as i° week, Wheat. Barley. Oats. First....37s 6d I 26's 6d lBs 6d Second .. 39s Od 29s Od 20s Od Third....4ls Od —s Od 21s Od COAL Prim of Coal per Ton at ►ILKET. the close of the market. e . s. 8. d. Byass's Bel side West - Hartley ...17 9 Hastings Hartley ....17 9 North Pelton Ga 5..... 14 0 Eden Main . 17 6 Holywell 15 6 Tanfield Moor Butes l3 6 Walker Primrose 13 6 Wylam 15 6 Walls End. 0 It asw e 11 ..... .• . 19 0 Hetton •••.••1S 9 9 Hartlepool ......... .. 1 ., 9 East Hartlepool ...... 1° 9 Relloe ... . 1 .. 18 0 South Kelloe ....... .. 8 0 Heugh Hall .......... 16 0 South Hetton ......... 19 Belmont l7 '' ...... Byron ... ir 6 5 Framwellgato ..•.••••Ibl7 1,, .. ..... Cassop Tunatall .... ...... ..17 3 119; sold, 101. Walls End. Goaforth --- ---- 17 0 1 Harton 17 0 Braddyll'a lietton 18 3 Stowart's 18 6 Ships at market, Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Aug. 1 via Marseilles Aug. " Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet . Aug. , 09. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. H e l ena .. Jul ' China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.Aug• 2 s. via Marseilles July Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. JuIY 26 ' ...... 2. India (Calcutta), and Ceylo n , v i a Southampton••Aug° s. ---' via Marseillos....July 26. India (Bombay), via Southampton ........ Ju l, ' I. via Marseilles J ul y 4. Portuga1.... 06 , :llalta, Egypt, and Men, via Southampton JulY ' 21, via Marseilles July Newfoundland .. Aug' '' Oporto and Vigo 2S' U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. J uly by U.S. packet.... , by Canadian packet.Juil All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, J u ly 2 9 ' California. and 13riti:th Columbia. Births. the CLEEVE.—On the 24th inst., at Gillingham, gen t '„f ti wife of Major Stewart Cleeve, 51st Light Infantry " son, WARD.—On the 25th inst., at Peckham, Mrs. lieuri Ward, of a daughter. gO/ 3 . WELBY.—On the 24th inst., at 23, Rutland-gate, the Mrs. Welby, of a son. Marriages. TOY BOYLE—PEPYS.—On the 23d inst., at St. George's , —"be o v er-square, Gerald E. Boyle, E sq ., th e eld es t on o ` h ter Hon, J ohn Boyle, to the Lady Theresa Pepys) daue of the first Earl of Cottenham. HILL—WATSON—On the 20th inst., at All Saints' C,,"`" fle co Leamington, Hilary Hill, E sq , oFWercester, to 1 ' 11 .7 - 04 second daughter of F. P. W atson , Esql 1/11(-3 House, Leamington. Deaths. s e e d CATOR.—On the 23d i ns t., A dm i ral Bert i e Cater, P 77. ar- HARRISSON,—On the 21st inst., in London , EversEvers on de d risson, Esq., of Tolethorpe Hall, county of R u tland, at' (38. E 5 lc l K , I L N i ; - O s n t r t he e e Lime - str e et, „ Ad of KNrairr.—On the 2 Cl o i,t t yt h h, inst,, aged 6 11 3 1 . Charles inst., at Ealing, (Po e Esq., aged 63. f lit 0 NI) BBS.—On th e 25 th i nst., Samuel Edwar d Nubbs t °- Fleece, Leather-market, BQrmondsey, aged 45. BB , r ah, I' ‘ I — w o i the am 23d inst., at 10, H anover -street, RO Steuart UCli R - -00 e Roebuck, J. Eq. k i, age de22dnst. r , 57. in B ra uckingha-street, Geo. London : Printed and Ptnl , llshed by IVI ----: LLIANrAN D efi 2 : of No. 312, Strand, Printer, at Sus Office Strand, the Precinct of the 3avoy, .n the Covivz Juiy 26, 1864.